The international workshop on ‘Tourism, Culture and Wetlands’ was organised in Tunis, Tunisia on 12-13 February by Med-INA in cooperation with MedWet and a number...
Medscapes – Evaluation of candidates’ offers
The Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA) is about to announce several open calls for the implementation of the MEDSCAPES project. Candidates wishing to...
Successful completion of the International Conference of the Vjosa / Aoos River Ecomuseum
The International conference and opening of the Vjosa / Aoos River Ecomuseum was completed with great success in Konitsa, Greece, on 26th and 27th January...
MEDSCAPES – Development of Landscape Character Assessment as a tool for effective conservation of natural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean
The MEDSCAPES project aims to develop and apply a Best-Practice Methodology for Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) in the East Mediterranean context, to be used as...
The Aoos / Vjosa River ecomuseum – Press release
From its sources in the Northern Pindus mountains in Greece, the Aoos / Vjosa River enters into Albania and discharges into the Adriatic Sea. Along...
Second edition of the “Pole relais lagunes Méditerranéennes” award
The second edition of the “Pole relais lagunes Méditerranéennes” award was offered in 2013. The objective of this award is to promote innovative activities taking...
A workshop on Mt Athos
On 29-30 August 2013 an important meeting on Mt Athos was held in the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki. Its purpose was to finalise...
Mediterranean Consortium for Nature and Culture
Med-INA has joined a consortium of national and international NGOs which have undertaken a project to assess and support cultural conservation practices in the Mediterranean...
Assessing and supporting cultural conservation practices in the Mediterranean
Until recently, many of the attempts to preserve biodiversity have traditionally been top down and stiff, with little understanding that “Biodiversity also incorporates human cultural...
Two educational panels on the Larnaka Salt Lakes installed at Larnaka airport and port
in the framework of the project ‘Culture and wetlands in the Mediterranean: using cultural values for wetland restoration’, two vivid educational panels promoting the area...
International conference ‘Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: How can they be protected?’
Friday 7 June 2013, Paris DDRI (the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relation), the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and the French National Library (BNF) are...
Inauguration of Wetlands Centre in Tunisia
Within the framework of the project ‘Wetlands in Tunisia: a Habitat for man and nature’, the government of Tunisia inaugurated on 25April 2013 the Ghar...